[TYPO3-english] sr_feuser_register with useEmailAsUsername = 1, How to keep the username?

[Thomas Meixner]

class.tslib_feuserauth.php has to be edited, not class.tslib_fe.php

Thomas Meixner wrote:
> All I had to do was to change one variable in 
> typo3/sysext/cms/tslib/class.tslib_fe.php
> 
> // Column for login-name
>     var $username_column = 'username';                
> 
> change that to email and it authenticates against the users email address.
> 
> Would be nice to be able to set this directly in the install tool or via 
> TS instead of hacking the core but it seems to work fine.
> 
> Thomas
> 
>  >It
>  > would be nice if you could just authenticate against the e-mail field
>  > and not touch the username at all but maybe that's a limitation of the
>  > Core, not sr_feuser_register.
> 
> Thomas Meixner wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I installed a community site with the latest Version of 
>> sr_feuser_register, felogin and kb_md5fepw . Currently users are login 
>> on with their username + pwd. I want to change this so users can login 
>> with their e-mail + pwd but they should be able to keep their personal 
>> username since it is their profilename and their e-mail usually is 
>> kept secret.
>>
>> sr_feuser_register by default duplicates the e-mail field and copies 
>> it in the username field.
>>
>> Is there a way to change this behaviour? Is there actually a 
>> particular reason why the e-mail address is duplicated into the 
>> username field? It would be nice if you could just authenticate 
>> against the e-mail field and not touch the username at all but maybe 
>> that's a limitation of the Core, not sr_feuser_register.
>>
>> Thanks for your comments or if you have more insight into the inner 
>> workings than I do.
>>
>>
>> Thomas